ratpoison under XQuartz?
ratpoison under XQuartz?
- Subject: ratpoison under XQuartz?
- From: Bayard Bell <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 22:13:59 +0100
After a bit of hacking around, I've got ratpoison working with urxvt for terminals (the most significant problem I had was that it wasn't immediately obvious that I needed to add an entry to /opt/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d rather than /usr/lib/X11/lib/X11/lib/xinit/xinitrc.d, and that was only because I was staring at documentation rather than realising that XQuartz calls /opt/X11/bin/startx rather than one of the other half-a-dozen startx scripts I seem to have acquired in my PATH). There are three problems I see at this point.
The first is that, as wonderful as the idea of copying XQuartz.app to XQuartzratpoison.app and allowing config differences to be handled via X11_PREFS_DOMAIN, I now end up with a copy of XQuartz that can't properly update itself with sparkle (it updates the regular XQuartz.app, which didn't need it), which seems a bit lame. It seems there should be a way to run a second XQuartz.app instance as a LaunchAgent and make all the necessary environment changes in the agent plist, but my brief attempt at this was fruitless.
The second issue is that Spaces/Exposé really don't know how to deal with switching to my ratpoison session. Sometimes when I'm in the same space, switching will actually hide the active window, only bringing it back when I switch to another app and back. When switching from another space, I end up with either the window I need obscured or no switch to that space at all.
The third is that I'm using urxvt and trying to get a bit of window transparency, which doesn't seem to be working. I've tried both the "transparent" option and tweaking alpha settings in an ARGB color setting, but none of it works. I'm not clear on whether that functionality is meant to be available yet in XQuartz.
I thought
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